Codename Entertainment brings Dungeons and Dragons to their hit idle game Crusaders of the Lost Idols [Free] with the new iPad game, Idle Champions of the Lost Realm [Free (HD)], and it's a doozy. Take the structure of your average idle clicker, add in a dose of RPG elements with strategy as to how characters interact and enhance one another, and create different missions with a complex metagame that can give you hundreds of hours of gameplay. That's Idle Champions in a nutshell, and it's quite the experience if you're willing to dive into it. Of course, you could say a lot of the same things about Crusaders, so while this is lacking in the originality department, it's still a rather fun experience for somebody looking for the galaxy brain of idle clickers.
If you haven't played Crusaders of the Lost Idols, get prepared for the deepest clicker ever. You command an army of heroes that constantly march forward and attack automatically killing enemies and getting gold. You then spend that gold on their upgrades, and while there's the general pattern of "more expensive heroes do more damage," you can't ignore any of your heroes either. See, you control the formation of the heroes, and different upgrades will cause the heroes to help other heroes out through stat upgrades. For example, a weak hero might be able to pick up several stat multipliers that could quadruple your most powerful hero's damage, despite them only adding a rounding error to your total damage per...